Festival adds some more quality names to lineup

Andrew Bird, Hayes Carll, among them

Photo Caption: Andrew Bird has been added to the Nelsonville Music Festival lineup.

Stuart's Opera House has added some more national acts to the lineup for this year's eighth annual Nelsonville Music Festival.

Andrew Bird, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Hayes Carll, and Time and Temperature have been added to a lineup that already includes Iron and Wine, M. Ward, Roky Erickson, Dawes, Charles Bradley, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Jorma Kaukonen, and many more.

The festival will take placeMay 18-20 at Robbins Crossing on the campus of Hocking College in Nelsonville.

Weekend passes and individual camping passes are on sale now. To purchase passes or for more information, visitwww.nelsonvillefest.org or call (740) 753-1924.

• Lee "Scratch" Perry is one of the pioneers of the dub/reggae style of music, and was key to bringing it to an international audience. He is responsible for the hit record "People Funny Boy," which moved over 70,000 units in Jamaica by itself.

• Texas country singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is well respected on both the mainstream and alt.country scenes.